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...stopped but a few trains and trams, members of the Communist-controlled Cuban Confederation of Labor swung past Havana's presidential palace to the conga beat of a hit tune called America Immortal. Their secretary, Communist Làzaro Peña, stood with President Ramón Grau San Martin as he reviewed the parade from his balcony...
...party's 151,000 cell-builders manage Cuba's organized labor, own one of Havana's big newspapers, swing the voting balance in the Senate, take a noisy if not decisive part in President Grau's policymaking. Through indirect control of the Ministry of Labor, the party forced the Government to seize Havana's U.S.-owned streetcar lines and a slaughterhouse in order to enforce labor demands. The working arrangement with the Grau regime helped put Communist Party Chief Juan Marinello in the Senate Vice-President's chair, may help the Communists pick...
Sublime Music. To the press Stokie muttered, "boycott." Then he scurried to Cuba's bewildered President Ramon Grau San Martin, who assigned his secretary to act as mediator. Barked Stokowski: "The man has not yet been born who can dictate...
Speaking from the Palace balcony, popular President Grau declared that the culprits would be tried, the guilty punished. He urged the people to be "sensible and correct," to "help the Government safe guard the nation's democratic institutions." The President did not mention a name in every Cuban's mind: ex-President Batista, the Strong Man who dominated Cuba for a decade until he permitted Grau to win a fair election in 1944. Several plotters were close friends of Batista, now touring the U.S. in something very like exile. Many were his associates. Pedraza himself was dismissed from...
...Said Grau next day at a press conference: The plot was hatched by "capitalists who had business deals with the Batista regime." Large sums were spent on a press campaign to stir up trouble. Plans included his own assassination and that of his Chief of Staff. "I have no sure proof," said Grau, "of [Batista's] participation, but neither have I proof that he is not involved...